“Mainly because everybody wants to be involved and because of that, it just gets bigger and bigger and that’s really rewarding. Everybody is walking around saying ‘How much will they raise?’ and isn’t that a much better thing than worrying about all the problems we have, anticipating how much we can raise to help the rest of the community?”

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It was live streamed on several WA news sites too and a number of clips are posted on You Tube under the “Telethon7” account

Telethon is an extraordinary event and the energy and enthusiasm West Australians have for it has to be seen to be believed. The east coast stars who visit for the first time are blown away by what they find. And I don’t understand the full history but Daryl Braithwaite performing “Horses” does things to the crowd that can’t be explained….